The top 20 Software Development courses you need to take

1. Agile Software Development

Learn best practices for using the Agile methodology to build better products faster and more efficiently...

2. Software Development Practices

As you prepare to become a professional mobile developer, you need to have a basic understanding of other industry standard software development practices. In this course, you will explore some of those processes and best practices in software development such as application lifecycle, infrastructure, testing, Agile/scrum development, how projects are estimated and tracked, as well as specialized tools...

3. Software Development Lifecycle

This Specialization is designed for people who are new to software engineering. It's also for those who have already developed software, but wish to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying context and theory of software development practices.\n\nAt the end of this Specialization, we expect learners to be able to:\n\n1.) Build high-quality and secure software using SDLC methodologies such as agile, lean, and traditional/waterfall.\n\n2.) Analyze a software development team's SDLC methodology and make recommendations for improvements.\n\n3.) Compare and contrast software development methodologies with respect to environmental, organizational, and product constraints...

4. IBM Full Stack Software Developer

Prepare for a career in the high-growth field of software development. In this program, you’ll learn in-demand skills and tools used by professionals for front-end, back-end, and cloud native application development to get job-ready in less than 4 months, with no prior experience needed.\n\nFull stack refers to the end-to-end computer system application, including the front end and back end coding. This Professional Certificate covers development for both of these scenarios. Cloud native development refers to developing a program designed to work on cloud architecture. The flexibility and adaptability that full stack and cloud native developers provide make them highly sought after in this digital world.\n\nYou’ll learn how to build, deploy, test, run, and manage full stack cloud native applications. Technologies covered includes Cloud foundations, GitHub, Node.js, React, CI/CD, Containers, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Istio, Databases, NoSQL, Django ORM, Bootstrap, Application Security, Microservices, Serverless computing, and more.\n\nAfter completing the program you will have developed several applications using front-end and back-end technologies and deployed them on a cloud platform using Cloud Native methodologies. You will publish these projects through your GitHub repository to share your portfolio with your peers and prospective employers.\n\nThis program is ACE® recommended—when you complete, you can earn up to 18 college credits...

5. Mastering Software Development in R

R is a programming language and a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, widely used by data analysts, data scientists and statisticians. This Specialization covers R software development for building data science tools. As the field of data science evolves, it has become clear that software development skills are essential for producing and scaling useful data science results and products.\n\nThis Specialization will give you rigorous training in the R language, including the skills for handling complex data, building R packages, and developing custom data visualizations. You’ll be introduced to indispensable R libraries for data manipulation, like tidyverse, and data visualization and graphics, like ggplot2. You’ll learn modern software development practices to build tools that are highly reusable, modular, and suitable for use in a team-based environment or a community of developers.\n\nThis Specialization is designed to serve both data analysts, who may want to gain more familiarity with hands-on, fundamental software skills for their everyday work, as well as data mining experts and data scientists, who may want to use R to scale their developing and programming skills, and further their careers as data science experts...

6. Full Stack Software Developer Assessment

This is the final course in the Full Stack Professional Certificate. It will test your knowledge and the skills you’ve acquired so far. This course contains the graded final examination covering content from nine of the eleven courses in the certificate. You will be assessed on topics such as core cloud computing concepts; languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python; frameworks such as Node.js and React; and backend technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, SQL, Django, and Serverless...

7. Open Source Software Development Methods

In this course, we will define what open source software is, we will go over the history of open source software and what benefits it has provided to the world’s technology infrastructure over the decades. The course aims to teach you how to work in open source projects productively and gain a lot of benefits from it, and really understand what the advantages are. You will learn about collaboration best practices, and how to encourage diversity in open source projects. We will discuss the different licensing models that are available, as this will help you decide what the best license is for your project. We will talk about methods that are commonly used, such as Continuous Integration, and use of GitHub and other hosting providers as a central meeting place for open source projects, and we will provide some examples of successful open source projects...

8. Software Architecture for Developers

4.1

(199)

20 years ago I graduated with a first class software engineering degree. Since then I've worked at every stage of the software lifecycle but I've always had a particular interest in software architecture.  If you have a software related background and you're interested in becoming a software architect, this course is definitely for you. Erik N says: The course provided a good overview of the topic for which I am interested, namely, software architecture. The content gave me some good ideas, encouragement and new avenues to explore. Sami S says: Good starting point to Software Architecture, at least to me who has 20+ years of software developer background. Jose V says: It's a good introductory course, very digestible and serves the purpose. Balint E says: It's a good basic introduction to the field. In this course I'll teach you what software architecture is and why we need it. I'll also explain the architecture design process and introduce you to useful patterns, frameworks and standards, which you can refer to and reuse. Becoming a software architect can be both fulfilling and lucrative, so I want to help you achieve this. I now know exactly what's involve and that's what I'll teach you in this course. Even if you're unsure about software architecture and whether you want to become involved in it, I even have a lecture dedicated to allaying any fears you may have. This course consists mainly of video, slides and some fun quizzes. It should only take you a couple of hours to complete, but it'll be a couple of hours very well spent. Thanks for taking an interest in this software architecture course and I look forward to you being my student...

9. Improving software development productivity

4.3

(299)

What will be in the course:​Personal experience;​How I structured the work in my team;​What my team and I use;​What are the alternatives to my tools;​Which helped speed up development.​What this course will not include:​A huge amount of theory;​Calculations that prove how to design;​Imposing opinions and proving that problems need to be solved only this way and nothing else.​As a result, this course will be useful not only for the technical leader of the development group, but also for managers of different levels, developers and testers.​The topics of the lessons that will be discussed in this course are shown on the slide:​Introductory lesson;​Team and roles in it;​Technical task;​Work planning;​Task management systems;​Architecture;​Version control systems, version accounting;​Codestyle;​Description of the code;​Automatic generation of documentation;​Testing;​Bug life cycle, Bug tracker;​Automatic tests;​Automatic machines and scripts;​Instructions;​Summing up and my results.​For each topic, there will be an explanation of how this innovation in the development process will help increase efficiency.​By efficiency, I mean the following measured parameters:​The number of mechanical errors will decrease;​Development time will be reduced;​The error search time will decrease;​The time to attract a new developer will decrease;​The accuracy of the development forecast and adherence to plans is increased.​And not measurable, which will also get better:​It will become easier to hand over the product to the customer;​Developers' interest will increase.​...

10. Software Development Lifecycle & Methodologies

4.7

(261)

Everything a business person or a technical recruiter needs to know about the waterfall, Agile, Kanban, Scrum, product backlog, Scrum roles, events, and artifacts. Are you a recruiter or a team leader? This course is right for you! You will learn how software development works straight from the source: a CTO of a fast-growing startup...

11. Software Design as an Element of the Software Development Lifecycle

This course talks about software development lifecycles a description/prescription for how we write software. Design is a step in this life cycle, and the course explores the implications of this. Design has a role in the life cycle; it is always there, regardless of the kind of life cycle we’re talking about. Why is that? Why was design considered as a step in this life cycle?...

12. Requirements Gathering for Secure Software Development

In Software Requirements Elicitation for Secure Software Development, we're going to discuss the overall software requirements process as it applies in waterfall, spiral, and agile models. You'll learn about each of these processes and your goals as a software requirements analyst. This is not an easy task! Who do you talk to, when, and what kind of knowledge are you trying to obtain, in any software life cycle? How do you handle obstacles as you go? These are the questions we will focus on answering in this specialization...

13. Cortex-M Software Development Fundamentals

This course delves into software development topics such as working with Arm C/C++ compilers and Arm debug tools to optimize your software, whether it's for performance or code size. This course also looks more closely at the Common Microcontroller Software Interface Standard and how it helps ensure that software targeted at Cortex-M devices can be written using a consistent approach...

14. Mastering Software Development in R Capstone

R Programming Capstone...

15. Software Development Processes (SDLC Models)

4.4

(128)

Are you intimidated by the software development process details? Well, most people are. However, we will dismantle it for you. This course, which is carefully organized to help students to learn about Software Development Processes easily. This course will help students explore the Software Development Processes (i. e methodologies) that are very fundamentals behind the software development and the methodologies that you hear in the market. It is very critical for all IT professionals (Management Staff, Software Architects, Programmers, Testers, Database Developers, System Administrators, and Network Administrators) to possess a clear understanding of these processes. Build the much needed strong foundation by learning these software development processes: Classic ModelWaterfall ModelV-ModelIterative ModelSpiral ModelRational Unified Process Model (RUP). Agile FundamentalsLearning these methodologies helps students to communicate with high confidence with a noticeable difference at work...

16. Kanban for Software Development Teams

4.3

(132)

With growing volatility in business environment, software development process has to be responsive enough to ensure that it enables the business agility rather than becoming a bottle neck. The fast adaption of agile based processes shows that software development groups are responding to the need of business. Most of the recent surveys show growing adaption of Kanban processes and in this program you will learn how to apply Kanban for solving your software development problems. This program not only introduces the kanban and lean software development development but provide detailed insight to implement kanban practices for improving your development process. This program gets into the details of kanban principles and see how they can be applied to software development process. The program provide implementable tips for planning and monitoring software development work using kanban. This program is approved for 4 Category A PDUs from PMI and 4 Category B SEUs from Scrum Alliance. Happy Learning! To access the additional material on Project Management and agile like chapter study guides, additional chapter test, simulated test, Podcast, PMP exam tips, please visit iZenBridge homepage...

17. Fundamentals Of Agile Software Development

4.5

(114)

Fundamentals Of Agile Software Development. This gives all required basic knowledge on agile software development. This is a good starting point or a quick refresher on Agile. Agile Fundamentals, Agile Manifesto and Principles, Overview of Agile Approaches, Frameworks. This course explains the fundamentals of Agile Software Development.  This training is designed to provide some basic information on agile software development, a discussion on agile manifesto and principles and an overview of different Agile approaches. This course is for anyone who want to learn or expand their knowledge on Agile Software Development. Anyone associated with, planning to get involved in or interested in learning more about Agile software development can use this course. This course is complied with a subset of lessons from our scrum training, i. e.  Agile & Scrum Training and Agile & Scrum: Interview Preparation with Questions, Answers****************************************************Updated as per the latest Scrum Guide. We have updated the course content as per the changes made in the latest version of the scrum Guide(TM)***************************************************   Topics covered as part of this course are... Agile Software DevelopmentAgile Manifesto and PrinciplesAgile Methodologies    Scrum    Kanban    Extreme Programming(XP)This course has some references taken from the Agile Manifesto and principles behind the Agile Manifesto. This course is neither endorsed by nor affiliated with Scrum org. This course uses content from the Scrum Guide. All the content related to Scrum Guide is taken from scrumguides org and is under the Attribution ShareAlike license of Creative Commons...

18. Estimates in Agile software development

4.5

(79)

In this course, you'll learn to do great time estimates for Agile software projects. We'll focus on Agile methodology and more specifically on the Scrum framework. I included also some techniques from traditional project management - the Waterfall methodology - and also a section about estimates in Kanban, another popular Agile framework...

19. Open Source Software Development, Linux and Git

The Open Source Software Development, Linux and Git Specialization will give you a strong foundation for working comfortably and productively in open source development communities. By completing the Specialization, you’ll have a better understanding of the Linux environment, as well as methods and tools required to successfully use it, and you’ll know how to use Git, the distributed version control system.\n\nUpon completion of this Specialization, you will receive a certificate from Coursera as well as a digital badge from The Linux Foundation recognizing your proficiency in open source software development, Linux environment and Git. Use your verified digital badge to promote your achievement online, and access job insights related to your new skills...